id: 112626 accession number: 1931.245 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.245 updated: 2023-12-01 07:47:23.749000 The Supper at Emmaus, c. 1720. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754). Oil on canvas; framed: 133.4 x 167 x 9.5 cm (52 1/2 x 65 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.); unframed: 108 x 140.6 cm (42 1/2 x 55 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1931.245 title: The Supper at Emmaus title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1720 creation date earliest: 1715 creation date latest: 1725 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 133.4 x 167 x 9.5 cm (52 1/2 x 65 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 108 x 140.6 cm (42 1/2 x 55 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: "Piaceta f." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: The Venetian Tradition opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00 The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957). title: Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Rococo to Romanticism opening date: 1970-09-19T04:00:00 Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Rococo to Romanticism. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (September 19-November 8, 1970); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (December 2, 1970-January 9, 1971); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (February 7-March 21, 1971). title: The Glory of Venice: Art in the 18th Century opening date: 1994-09-15T04:00:00 The Glory of Venice: Art in the 18th Century. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (September 15-December 14, 1994); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (January 29-April 23, 1995); Museo di Ca' Rezzonico, Venezia VE, Italy (May 25-September 30, 1995). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Florence, Pitti Palace, 1922: "mostra della pittura italiana del seicento e settecento," cat. no. 750 (catalogue by Roberto Longhi, et. al.). * New ork, Durlacher Brothers, November 19-December 8, 1934: "An Exhibition of Venetian Painting 1600-1800," cat. no. 14. * CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition," cat. no. 162, plate XXXVIII. * San Francisco, May 25-September 9, 1940: "Golden Gate International Exposition," cat. no. 163, repr. * Northampton, mas., Smith College Museum of Art, February 6-February 26, 1947: "Italian Baroque Painting," cat. no. 27. * Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum, April 9-May 16, 1948: "Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Art of Europe during the XVI-XVII Centuries," cat. no. 22. * CMA, 1956: "The Venetian Tradition," cat. no. 29. * Balitmore Museum of Art, 1968: "From El Greco to Pollock," cat. no. 38, repr. * Venice, Doge's Palace, June 7-October 15, 1969: "Dal Ricci al Tiepolo, i pittori di figura del settecento a Venezia," cat. no. 58, illus. pp. 138-39, (catalogue by Pietro Zampetti). * The Art Institute of Chicago, September 19, 1970-March 21, 1971: "Painting in Italy in the 18th Century," --- PROVENANCE Giovanni Paolo Baglioni, San Cassiano, Venice, 1787 date: footnotes: citations: the family of Castiglioni, San Cassiano, Venice date: footnotes: citations: Count Castiglioni (Padua, Italy) date: footnotes: citations: Italico Brass (Venice, Italy), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1931. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 54 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n62 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 424 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n78 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 143 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n167 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 143 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n167 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 142 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n162 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 387-389; Reproduced: p. 388 url: "1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. page number: Mentioned: p. 238 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.245/1931.245_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.245/1931.245_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1931.245/1931.245_full.tif